Re: Memory installation in a 170?

I believe that is an aerodynamic air scoop for the processor.


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Bryan Dietz 
Aktion Associates 

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/25/2006 04:04:51 AM:

-> The installation was entirely successful (and a 7/32" 
-> socket was indeed close enough for jazz, the 5.0mm 
-> definitely being too small).
-> 
-> The memory was on the main logic board; there were 32MB 
-> SIMMs in four slots, white plastic "dentures" in the other 
-> four slots, and an odd-looking white plastic box below the 
-> memory sockets. The new SIMMs were 128MB each, so the 
-> result was a fivefold increase in the available memory. I 
-> was in and out of the building in about half an hour.
-> 
-> What, by the way, is the "odd-looking white plastic box"? 
-> It's about the size of all 8 SIMMs combined.
-> 
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-> JHHL
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